Film focuses on Three Rivers

Within every local city and village a group of strong community advocates keeps its community moving forward. In Three Rivers such leaders joined forces to produce a full-length movie “The Current — Three Rivers.”Promoting the city as it exists in 2012-13, the movie is filled with local youth, businesses...

Within every local city and village a group of strong community advocates keeps its community moving forward. In Three Rivers such leaders joined forces to produce a full-length movie “The Current — Three Rivers.”

Promoting the city as it exists in 2012-13, the movie is filled with local youth, businesses and community leaders. Music written for the show is performed by local musicians. Local personalities — David Miholer, Dennis Rumsey, Norm Stutesman and the late Bruce Snook — narrate the movie as needed.

The movie is dedicated in memory of Snook.

“It was not meant to be a Hollywood blockbuster production,” said Jerry Wright, director. “It’s also not a documentary. It’s a full-length, promotional movie about the inviting community of Three Rivers.”

And it’s educational.

By the end of the movie all who attend should easily remember the names of those three rivers from the song lyrics which repeats, “the Rocky, the Portage, and St. Joe.” Movie goers should also have a better picture of the families and businesses that make up the community.

None of it would have occurred without the vision of Tom Meyer, founder and co-owner of Meyer Ventures, Inc. Wright said.

“Tom had a burning desire to promote the town he was born and raised in,” Wright said. “As the sole producer, he has been the driving force.”

Wright contributed his experience from the field of entertainment by writing some of the script and adding the idea of using chapters to weave the aspects of Three Rivers into story form. Filming was by Dan Martin, owner of Kzoom Video and Media Solutions.

Local students are literally “poster children” for the movie. At the beginning of each chapter, they would hold a poster and introduce the next segment.

The movie opens this weekend at Three Rivers 6 with two shows on Friday — 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. On Saturday at 11 a.m. the “Poster Kids” are invited to a family premiere showing which is also open to the public.

All tickets are advance sales only — $12 for adults and $6 for children age 12 and under. A family rate is available at www.Experience3R.com or by calling (269) 279-9100 or (269) 501-2910 for more information.